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Successful Business Plan: Secrets & Strategies Paperback – October 3, 2023

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This essential step-by-step guide for anyone launching or expanding a business has been used by over two million entrepreneurs and in over one thousand business schools. Named one of the 100 best business strategy books of all time. 

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• Print length 490 pages
• Language English
• Publisher Planning Shop
• Publication date October 3, 2023
• Dimensions 9 x 1 x 10.5 inches
• ISBN-10 1933895934
• ISBN-13 978-1933895932
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Planning Shop; 8th edition (October 3, 2023)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 490 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1933895934
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1933895932
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.4 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9 x 1 x 10.5 inches
• #1,045 in Strategic Business Planning
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Rhonda Abrams has helped millions of people launch and grow successful businesses. Her first book, Successful Business Plan: Secrets & Strategies is the bestselling business plan guide of all time and is considered the definitive guide to business planning. It was acclaimed by Forbes magazine as one of the two best books for small business and by Inc. magazine as one of the six best books for startups.

She has authored 19 books, which have sold more than 2 million copies and been translated into 30 languages, including the popular Six-Week Startup, Business Plan in a Day, and Entrepreneurship: A Real-World Approach. She has a deep knowledge of the small business market and a passion for entrepreneurship. Her books, written with the express purpose of enabling people make their business vision a reality, are clear, concise, actionable, and practical.

Rhonda is also an entrepreneurship/small business columnist for USA Today but she not only writes about entrepreneurship—she lives it! She has started four businesses and is currently the founder/President of PlanningShop. She knows what it takes to meet payroll, pay vendors, reach and keep customers, find and impress investors, and get products out the door.

You can find out more about Rhonda at www.RhondaAbrams.com.

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